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U. S. News & World Report, July 24- 31, 2000, devoted an entire issue to "Mysteries of History." Not only are there many unanswered questions such as the disappearance of aviatrix Amelia Earhart; the possible survival of the Russian princess Anastasia; whether the FBI killed Public Enemy No. 1 John Dillinger; what happened to the Van Gogh that was sold at Christie's auction house for $82.5 million in 1990; whether Christopher Columbus visited Iceland in 1477; who was Beethoven's great love; or whether there is actually a lost civilization of Atlantis; but long-accepted truths are being called into question. Many doubt if William Shakespeare was the author of the many plays ascribed to him. Historians doubt whether Davy Crockett died defending the Alamo. Some doubt whether Marco Polo ever visited China. Some find no evidence that there was ever a King Arthur or the Round Table or Camelot. Others question whether Abraham Lincoln ever wrote a sympathy letter to the Boston widow Lydia Bixby who had lost all five of her sons in the Civil War. Others wonder whether the pharaohs built the Great Sphinx. Brian Huberman, professor of art and art history at Rice University in Houston, Texas, stated, "It shows the way in which history works, in the sense that it has to be revitalized regularly for each generation."
God, through Jeremiah, threatens to punish his people for forgetting their history, for forgetting all that God had done for them in the past. They failed to recall his favor toward them and were about to suffer for it.
God, through Jeremiah, threatens to punish his people for forgetting their history, for forgetting all that God had done for them in the past. They failed to recall his favor toward them and were about to suffer for it.
